RFC: Java inliner

Tue Jun 11 09:58:00 GMT 2002

Joe Buck writes:
 > On 11-Jun-2002, Andrew Haley <aph@cambridge.redhat.com> wrote:
 > > > > I intend to work on a Java specific tree inliner.
 > > > > 
 > > > > Comments?
 > 
 > Fergus Henderson writes:
 > > > I doubt we'll get a real language-independent AST inliner soon
 > > > if everyone who could benefit from it decides that it will be easier
 > > > for them to build their own language-specific tree inliner instead ;-)
 > 
 > Andrew writes:
 > > I take your point!
 > > 
 > > However, at the moment Java doesn't have an inliner of any kind, so...
 > 
 > You could work with the ast-optimizer-branch folks and see if you can get
 > their stuff working well for Java. Then you'd be contributing to the
 > language-independent inliner as well as making Java better.
I may do both.
Andrew.